Recently I wrote an article about reports I was receiving describing odd large building size and shape UFO's being seen all over the world. I found the reports strange and thought they were very rare.

As soon as I published that article new reports started to come in concerning this type of sighting. I realized that this may not be as rare as I assumed . I also found a thread running through each report stating that since the people who witnessed these strange crafts never heard about anyone else seeing them they remained silent about their encounter. Once they read others also were encountering these odd large crafts or floating structures they decided to come forward by sharing their experience.

I think this may be a case of a strangeness that has been swept under the carpet by way of its odd appearance and fear of ridicule by those seeing them. I do think they are uncommon but feel there are enough people on this planet who have seen them to realize this is another face of the UFO subject that simply has been neglected.

I do not know what the people are seeing. They all report what appears to be a building type structure floating where buildings or any structure should not be- yet there they are!

I have no idea if these structures are huge alien crafts, our own military black ops , or something that we have not even named or categorized yet. They may be dimensional or holograms or projections of some kind.

I have no clear theory or explanation for what is being seen . I do know people are seeing these things all over the world. I believe I once read that ancient civilizations left references to flying buildings however I am not sure of the source or if that was correctly translated over history. I do know people in our time are seeing these strange structures .

I will present to you the reports I have been sent concerning these strange structures. I always protect the Identity of those who are gracious enough to share their encounters with us. I am not interested in destroying privacy or lives I am only interested in what they have seen . Sharing the knowledge of what is being witnessed is far more important than ripping apart someone's privacy.

I will start with the most recent reports including the original article sightings below the new reports for those who did not read my original article on this strange subject..

Here are the new reports recently sent in concerning this new type of craft or structure:

Hi Chris,

I just read your article about big rectangle building looking UFO's on one of the paranormal sites on the internet.

In Sept. 2004 I saw a tennis-court size building floating over North East Charlotte, North Carolina. It was broad daylight about 5pm during rush hour traffic.

I was driving very slowly on an exit ramp off of route I-85 North. I did not have the sense at the time to look around to see if anybody else saw it.

This strange UFO had 6 or 7 floors . It was encased in reflective panels like you would see in a skyscraper. It made no sound. I reported this to NUFORC at the time. My account is listed there.

Cordially,

Beth

Next came this strange report:

Chris Holly

On August 8, 2008 I was on a 8:30 am break at work. I worked 5 miles. north of downtown Ft. Worth Texas at the time..

I was staring out the back door of my workplace looking toward the skyline.

Suddenly I saw a huge grey object slowly moving across the sky from East to West. The sighting lasted for about 35 seconds.

The object looked like a 3 level parking garage . I could see sky light through horizontal slits in its structure. . I did not see any lights on the structure. I did not hear any sound however think it was too far away for me to hear from that distance in the early active morning.

I think it was about 1/4 mile away. From what I could tell it was approximately 150 ft in length and about 60 ft in height. I would say it was moving along the skyline about 30 mph.

I watched as it began to move or float behind the building next door to it. I ran to tell the two other workers who were also on break who were located in a different part of our workplace to take a look at this odd thing moving through the sky. It had moved behind another building. We waited for whatever it was to move into view again. That did not happen. The thing just disappeared. It was simply gone!.

My co- workers made a big joke of it . I will tell you the sight of that thing plagued me for quite a while.

I had almost given up thinking about it until I viewed Episode 20 of UFO Hunters on the History channel and couldn't believe that they were talking about nearly the same thing I had seen .

I always wondered if I would ever see a bona fide UFO. I really had my doubts . I never thought I would see one in the form of a floating grey building structure. I just think of this as more strange things that go on out there. Wonders never cease.

Roger

TX

I find all of these sightings very strange and frightening . I have to wonder what and how many beings or inhabitants may be housed in these structures . Could they be transporting hundreds if not thousands of alien life forms? Could it be a dimensional craft? Can this be top secret military experiments? The report below I find very interesting as it shows that this is an ongoing mystery. This sighting happened only a few days ago.

Ms. Holly

Somebody gave me you article concerning floating building UFOS.

Monday afternoon I was on a plane coming from Dallas to Houston. I was on the 3:00 pm Southwest flight #50 from Dallas to Houston January 24, 2011. It was approximately 3:35 - 3:50 pm.

As we approached Houston we entered a storm and some heavy clouds. I looked out of my window and I saw what looked like the top of a radio tower with 3 spires pointing up sticking out of the clouds.

It was not moving and very close to the airplane- maybe 200 - 300 meters tops. I thought to myself that we must be really close to the ground in this thick fog and I was seeing the top of a building.

The plane then went through another break in the clouds and I could see the ground around 20,000 feet below us.

I am not aware of any radio towers that tall or big. What I saw was big, probably the size of a small house (800 - 1200 sq ft) base with 3 long spires sticking out the top (sort of like the San Francisco tower). The spires where about the length of an interstate light pole with other things hanging off of it.

The rest of it was in the clouds below and I could not see it. It was dark grey like a titanium wedding ring color. I watched it from the time it came to view in the front of the window and continued to look at it until we went into a new cloud bank.

It wasn't moving so it was like flying by a building 15 - 30 seconds. A few people looked concerned/confused on the plane.

I should have stopped and asked the pilot but in all honesty I was a little bit worried about asking around. Nothing personal but I never thought I would see something in the air or be on a UFO web page asking about it.

I can assure you it was not an illusion or reflection. It was solid as a rock and not obscured. It was just like staring at a building as you fly by. There were no flashing lights or anything like that. I did try and take a picture but my phone didn't boot in time.

D from Texas.

Below find the original reports I included in my first article concerning other strange structure sightings:

The Canada wilderness report was of a large rectangle sized building covered in bright white light that hovered silently over the tree tops. The man who encountered this large object did not see a base of the object on the ground . He saw this huge structure hovering behind his tree line at the back of one of his fields.

The man noticed a bright light coming from one of his back fields as he stood on the porch of his home located deep in a sparsely populated part of the middle of Canada in the northern part of the country.

The man knew there were no lights or source for the light that he could see brightly shinning from his field. He got into his truck and drove to the field to see what was generating the light. When he arrived he saw just above the tree line, in the back area of his field , a large rectangle fully lit structure . He said it looked like a building that was aglow. He immediately became frightened as he had no idea what this structure was or why it was in his field. He had a camera in his truck and quickly took a photo of the event.

The man became extremely frightened at this point as he realized this object seemed to be hovering behind his tree line. The structure was the size of a large building. He did not want to risk facing whatever it was that may be in this craft alone. He knew he was alone in the middle of the wilderness .

He jumped into his truck and returned to his house. The light eventually went out . The man returned to the field to investigate the encounter the next day but did not find anything out of the ordinary.

This man is a very private person which is why he lives in this desolate area and is very concerned for his privacy . He was very hesitate to share his story and his photo. After thinking about what he encountered he came forward in order to warn others about the strangeness he encountered. He refuses to talk about the event and does not want any attention brought to his private property or private life.

this is the photo from the Canada sighting of the actual craft taken by man in his field

The Canadian report was the first I ever heard or reported concerning large building size UFO's. It was about a year later that I was contacted by another man who reported a far stranger event in hopes I had heard of others like it. This man had not seen or heard of the Canadian report.

The man told me that the event he was reporting happened to his mother while she was traveling along a highway in southwest Texas. The year was 1999 and it was in the fall .

The man's mother was driving along the highway she traveled frequently very late at night . It was a very dark night. As she drove she noticed just to the side of the road some lights that looked like the lit windows of a tall building.

She knew there weren't any buildings anywhere near where she was driving. In fact the only place near where a building like the one she was looking at was located was a good 50 miles away .

The woman drove past the building amazed at the fact it was standing in the middle of nowhere. After she drove past it she pulled over as her curiosity got the better of her to get a look at this strange sight. She got out of her car to get a better look at this misplaced building.

The woman told her son that the building was the size of a 7 or 8 story building. She told him the windows were rectangle in shape and well lit from the inside. There was no sound at all coming from the building. As the woman stood looking at the huge structure of windows she realized she could almost make out the interior of the building . She also realized she could not make out the definite lines of the exterior of the building or see the base where it was attached to the earth.

As the woman stood next to her car she realized the structure seemed to simply be floating next to the road. This startled and upset the woman. She jumped back in to her car and drove away. She looked back numerous times in her rear view mirror to find she could not see the building , the windows or the lights anywhere behind her.

According to her son this woman is a stable normal woman who does not follow flights of fancy or have any interest in subjects considered paranormal. She does remain fixed in her report that she did see this structure floating along the side of the highway.

Her son drove back to the location a few different times searching for clues to what his mother could have seen that day. He did not find anything usual or any structure of any kind in the area.

I have no idea what this woman witnessed that day. She did not have a photo or a witness to add to her report. I thought it may have been a day dream, or a hallucination or something of that nature. I also realized it could have been a military operation , a hologram or an actual ship of some kind that are rarely seen by human eyes.

I did not think about this report too much again until I received other reports equally as odd.

I opened my email one day to find this report :

"Hi Chris

In 1988 while living in Colorado. I witnessed the strange sight of a large building floating in the air with my wife.

My wife and I had a store in a small town in Southern Colorado at the time. It was located in a roll up the streets at 9 p.m. types of quiet towns.

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We lived in an apartment above our store. Late one evening we looked out the window to find a very large- bigger then football field boxy craft with numerous block type projection all over it moving behind a small mountain at the edge of town.

It was approximately. 2-3 blocks away from the store.

There was no sound at all. It moved very smoothly. It was very close to the ground.

We thought it must be a government project because it was moving over the mountains outside of town that is surrounded with government. signs warning they would shoot if anyone entered the area.

We only saw this happen once but knew it was strange. Someone somehow was moving a huge building effortlessly without noise or fanfare over the mountain range.

Any way for what it is worth that is what we saw ."

After this email I started to think that something very odd was happening that we were all missing. It is without question possible that these events were black op projects. It could also be a hologram event or a large UFO craft we have yet to see often.

Who is behind these building size crafts is anyone's guess. Could it be we have the ability to move entire structures in this manner? Can we be projecting them to give the illusion of cities or towns where none exist or can they be actual crafts of another visiting species that are being moved about.? I just do not know.

The next report was sent to me which I truly found incredible. At first I thought it was a joke until I had a few more contacts with the people who sent it and realized they were serious and unsure what the odd object was that they had seen.

This article was sent to me from UFO sightings Devon England

http://hgn53k.blogspot.com/

Day/night: Dusk about 20:00hrs

Duration: 15-20 minutes

No. of Objects: Single

No. of Witnesses: 3

"Full Description & details:

This craft was amazing an L-shaped building complete with balconies at the rear (three of them).

Below the balconies were two mesh dishes shaped similar to Butterfly wings. These were pulsing a blue/purple light and seemed to be propelling the craft.

Underside we saw three white lights with huge pipes between them. There were two lights at the rear and one light at the front. Also every straight edge was like a fluorescent tube.

The craft looked as if constructed of concrete with a yellow appearance.

This craft emitted a heavy electrical humming noise as it passed over about fifty feet in the air. The building was about 6 stories high and moving along at about 50 miles per hour at top speed."

I will let the above report stand on its own merit. I have no idea at all what the people are seeing. I realize the reports are coming from all over the world concerning the floating building structures and realize they are to be considered until otherwise explained unidentified floating objects or UFF!

At this time I can only wonder if this type of craft or sighting will become more widespread or if they will remain far and view apart. Time will answer that question.

I am sure we all can come up with countless theories to what these people encountered. I think it is another warning to us all to be alert and aware of our surroundings and to be prepared to catch what you may encounter on your camera if possible.

The road to figuring out what is going on out there is to join together with evidence and unity. We also need to demand our questions be answered and our sightings investigated and taken seriously.

I find these reports to be extremely strange and intriguing. I have no idea at all what is going on . I do know something unexplained and odd is being seen all over the world. If we all continue to pay attention to our surroundings we have a chance one day of figuring out what all this strangeness is and where these odd structures, crafts, UFO's are coming from and why.

I will continue to bring updates on this subject and continue to bring all new reports sent to me to my readers attention. I truly believe once the UFO's turn into building size structures it is long overdue for us to find answers.

For now watch for those flying buildings!

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A glowing round object making a speedy descent near the West Bengal-Bihar border early on January 26 left pilots of five aircraft baffled, triggering widespread speculation about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The first person to sight the object was a senior Air India pilot who was navigating the aircraft at a height of 34,000 ft during its flight from Kolkata to New Delhi.

“The plane was just entering the airspace of Gaya, close to Bengal-Bihar border, when I first noticed the glowing object, below the aircraft, hurtling down at a very high speed,” Captain Rishi was quoted as saying by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower here at Dum Dum International Airport.

The Air India pilot initially didn’t pay much attention as it is customary for the pilots to notice several such things midair. But when the aircraft was close to Varanasi, the object was still brightly visible.

Without wasting time, he informed the Varanasi Air Traffic Control from where ATC, Kolkata, was alerted.

The officials at ATC pondered over whether pilots of other international flights that might have crossed the Kolkata-Bihar-Varanasi route, had also observed the glowing object reported by Capt Rishi.

Accordingly, the ATC, Kolkata, beamed asking signals for other international flights that flew the same airspace during the period concerned.

Foreign pilots confirm
To their utter surprise, the air traffic control officials were told by as many as four foreign airlines flight pilots that they had seen the same object and all of them reiterated that it was falling down at a great speed!

FinAir of Finland and Novou Air of Sweden were flying from the West to East while a couple of flights of Cathay Pacific and Dynasty Airways of China were moving in the opposite direction at an altitude between 34,000 and 37,000 ft over the airspace supposed to be in the trajectory of the object.

Once the foreign airlines pilots radioed back the ATC tower here, confirming their sighting of the object, ATC engineers immediately got in touch with the Indian Air Force. However, the IAF engineers pointed out that their powerful radar had failed to track or notice any unusual object.

“It could be a shooting star or part of a meteor or a metal that had a sudden entry into the earth’s atmosphere as a result of which it turned into a burning object and appeared glowing from a distance,” explained Positional Astronomy Centre director Sanjib Sen.

“There is no denying the fact of its existence as so many pilots having seen it.”
But when everyone had seen it falling at a high speed, where and when the object had hit the earth? There is apparently no answer to this question so far.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/134019/ufo-mystery-kolkata-air.html

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Chances of finding aliens given a boost after Nasa finds evidence of over 1,200 MORE planets - and 54 of them may be able to support life!

The chances of finding alien life were given a boost last night after Nasa revealed it had found evidence of more than 1,200 planets in orbit around far distant stars.

If the findings are confirmed, it will more than triple the number of known planets outside our own solar system in one fell swoop - and, amazingly, 54 of them could be able to support life.

Only two potentially habitable planets have previously been found outside earth's solar system, so Kepler chief scientist William Borucki said 54 is 'an enormous amount, an inconceivable amount'.

The revelation came as American scientists announced the discovery of a new planetary system made up of at least six planets orbiting a star 2,000 light years away.

Exciting: This is one of the smallest planets that Kepler has found, a rocky planet called Kepler-10b, that measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and where the temperature is more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit

System: This artists's impression from Nasa shows Kepler-11, a sun-like star around which six planets orbit

The new solar system was spotted using Nasa's Kepler space telescope which looks for tiny flickers in the brightness of a star each time a planet passes across its surface.

The star - called Kepler-11 - is similar to our own Sun. However, all its planets are in orbit too close to the star to hold life as we know it.

These were strange contrails unlike I've ever seen before.
I was in the back yard trying to photograph a domed radar plane flying
over at low altitude.After I got a picture of it i noticed the strange contrails in the sky.I took four pictures of it and watched it for about 15 minutes.

Extraterrestrials now live among us in China and in U.S.A., newspapers report

Sun Shili, former China Foreign Ministry official

Photo: The Canadian National Newspaper

A Canadian newspaper is reporting that Sun Shili, a retired foreign ministry official, states Extraterrestrials are living among us.

An extraterrestrial from Tau Ceti living in the U.S.A.

The China ET report is corroborative of this reporter Alfred Lambremont Webre's 4-part ExopoliticsTV interview and Examiner.com series with Jerry Wills, an apparent extraterrestrial from Tau Ceti who resides in the United States.

Jerry Wills is an accomplished healer, explorer, and musician with the band UFAUX who recently participated in a world webcast in which Mr. Wills discussed his identity as an extraterrestrial from the Tau Ceti star system (12 light years from Earth) left here as an infant as part of a project of the Council of Worlds for the betterment of Earth.

In a 4-part ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Mr. Wills, who is 6 feet 8 inches tall, talks about how he was adopted by a human family, how he dealt with his unusual abilities growing up, how he was visited regularly by an extraterrestrial delegation that briefed him on his extraterrestrial identity and his mission, how during these visits he was told to watch for specific signs during the 18-year period preceding 2012 as to whether the earth and the human population would veer toward peace or war, and how these visits stopped on the day of September 11, 2001, Mr. Wills’ birthday and the date a regularly scheduled visit was of the extraterrestrial delegation to occur.

In conversation with Alfred Lambremont Webre, Mr. Wills speaks about the 2012-13 catastrophic timeline and the 2012-13 positive timeline and what this means to all of us.

Watch Part 1 of ExopoliticsTV interview with Jerry Wills and Alfred Lambremont Webre

Examiner.com readers can watch Part 1 of the 4-part interview with Jerry Wills and Alfred Lambremont Webre above in this article or by clicking the URL below:

Ex-China Foreign Ministry Official says Extraterrestrials live among us

by Paul Chen

[Introduction omitted]

Chinese scientists also say that aliens live among humans. This includes Sun Shili, a retired foreign ministry official who is now president of the Beijing UFO Research Society who also concludes that waixingren (extraterrestrials) are living among us.

Sun's first close encounter occurred in 1971, when he was sent to the remote countryside during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) to perform the grueling task of rice planting. One day while toiling in the field, his attention was diverted to a bright object in the sky, which rose and fell repeatedly.

At first, Sun assumed the spectacle was some sort of Cold War intelligence monitoring device - a reasonable deduction considering the times - however years later, after reading foreign materials on UFO sightings, he knew he had experienced a close encounter.

As the alien spacecraft reached the highest point of the building, it suddenly showed seven white lights evenly displaced around the outer edge of the craft. Reference: Nationalufocenter.com.

And Sun is not the only expert in the country taking these sightings seriously. According to the highly accredited Shen Shituan, an actual rocket scientist, president of Beijing Aerospace University and honourary director of the government-supported China UFO Research Association, every report of an alien encounter is worth investigating.

''Some of these sightings are real, some are fake and with others it’s unclear,'' said Shen Shituan, a real rocket scientist, president of Beijing Aerospace University and honorary director of the China UFO Research Association. ''All these phenomena are worth researching.''

Research [ethically-based] into UFO's could help spur new forms of high-speed travel, unlimited sources of non-polluting and non-fossil fuel based energy and faster-growing crops, claims Sun Shili, president of a government-approved UFO Research Association (membership 50,000).

Chile: Controversy Over an Intriguing UFO Case

Source: Terra Chile
Date: 02.01.2011

Chile: Controversy Over an Intriguing UFO Case

The Valdés Case – the most paradigmatic episode of Chilean ufology – has been revisited in “La noche de los centinelas” (The Night of the Sentries), an 8-year-long journalistic investigation that looks into background events, locates the protagonists and “uncovers more than one surprise”, according to the author.

It occurred one early morning on April 1977 near Putre, in the Chilean highlands.

Eight young soldiers were keeping watch around a fire when they were startled by the appearance of two ghostly lights of unknown origin in the vicinity of some nearby hills.

One of them disappeared behind a small hill while the other placed itself at the foot of a mountain, flying over the area and engaging in approach-and-retreat maneuvers before the eyes of the disconcerted soldiers.

After three minutes of terror, corporal Armando Valdés, in charge of the squad, walked away from his companions toward the light. The young conscripts watched him vanish from sight for 15 minutes, during which their calls for him and their search yielded no result.

At a given moment, they heard the subofficer’s voice pleading for help, and they saw him walking toward them unsteadily. He had a dense growth of beard despite having been clean-shaven just minutes earlier, and the calendar on his digital watch was five days fast.

The startled conscripts settled him near the fire. And that was when he said, in a strange voice:” “You will never know who we are, nor where we come from, but we will return again.” He then fell asleep.

The case became a journalistic sensation and achieved global notoriety. But within days, its protagonists slipped into obscurity and Corporal Valdés became a legend.

Twenty-five years later, journalist and researcher Patricio Abuselme took up the challenge of reinvestigating the case and interview its main protagonists, an effort which is summarized in his book La noche de los sentinelas, an in-depth journalistic investigation on the incident, which he published in late 2010 under his own publishing house – Terra Incognita.

“This is the case that made Chilean ufology known worldwide. However, no one bothered to conduct a serious, in-depth investigation of the case. I took up the challenge in 2002, and it took me eight years to compile the protagonists’ accounts and reassemble this “impossible story”, says the author.

In less than 300 pages, Abusleme provides a comprehensive view of the case, from the first journalistic dispatches reporting the incident to exclusive interviews with the main protagonists, including subofficer Valdés (Ret.) – unpublished details and conclusions that the author has described as preliminary.

“When I started this investigation, I did so in the secret hope of explaining the whole case in conventional terms. And I thought I was well on the way until the main protagonist of the story debunked the cases most controversial aspects – the growth of his beard and the wristwatch’s date change – by providing conventional explanations. The problem is that when I tried to corroborate it with the other witnesses, they provided a version that was mutually congruent, but at odds with the one offered by Valdés. For this reason, the book poses a controversy,” says Abusleme.

“If someone is looking for a story of mystics in direct contact with Martians, he or she won’t find it here. What they will find is information, information and more information. The outcome of a detailed journalistic investigation that enables the reconstruction of an intriguing real case that captured headlines over 30 years ago.”

La noche de los centinelas is on sale in Chile’s main bookstores, but can also be purchased from the author at www.lanochedeloscentinelas.com

Faceless Man of Shrewsbury

BY RANDY T.

After reading "Faceless Man in Black" from April 2009, I would like to share a similar encounter I had of my own from this past October that has been giving my wife and I nightmares for months. Let me start by saying I live in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Nothing weird happens up here at all, nor has anything weird happened to me until I was coming home from a club with my wife after celebrating our two-year anniversary.

It just a nice night out, a little dancing, some dinner and a couple of drinks (I think I should add my wife and I were not intoxicated in any way, shape or form). As we went outside of the club to go to the car, I noticed what looked like someone standing near a fire escape across the street. I didn't pay much attention until my wife pointed out how "peculiar" the man looked. His face seemed somewhat obscured by shadows, but this guy was a tall (I mean about 7 feet, not hard to miss), slender man in a black suit. It felt like he was watching us. That was our cue to leave quickly. She was a little shaken up and, hey, I was a little creeped out.

Then, just as we were not even 10 minutes away from our house, guess who we see standing on the sidewalk? It was the same tall man in the black suit. Now here's the worst part that I will never forget for as long as I live: my headlights briefly shined across his face, but he had no features! I didn't look back, I just sped toward my house, hoping we would make it back safely.

My wife and I didn't discuss it for a week until she was woken up by a nightmare one night. In it, the skinny, faceless man hovers into our room, fiddles around with something on our nightstand, takes something and leaves. I get up to go investigate and -- this is the weird part -- my wallet has $20 missing from it. Everything else was there except for a $20 bill that I know for a fact I couldn't have lost or spent that day. Could I have misplaced it or was it the work of this slender thief?

This picture was taken by the someone who lives in Seoul in south Korea. and he taken this picture at the famous mountain that is called "nam san tower" in Seoul. actually I didn't take this picture. but someone recommended me to upload this picture on this site.

Can scientists REALLY make it rain (or are they a useless shower?)

At the height of the Vietnam War, soldiers who heard U.S. aircraft flying high over the Ho Chi Minh trail might have feared bombs were about to fall from the sky, or at least that reconnaissance pilots were taking pictures of the Viet Cong's supply lines.

In fact, they had very little to fear. The planes were just trying to make it rain - but they weren't very good at it.

The idea was simple: seed the heavy clouds with tiny particles of silver iodide whose electrical charge would pull together the cloud's water droplets. Once enough droplets had gathered together, their weight would make them fall from the sky as rain.

Splash hit: Hannah Harbottle is soaked as shoppers take cover from a downpour in Cheltenham in 2004

The resulting deluge would turn the Vietnamese supply lines into a quagmire and halt the communists in their tracks.

Operation Popeye started in 1966 and ran for seven years. Pilots flew 2,600 rain-seeding sorties, but it was a dismal failure. There was a little rain but not enough to halt the supply lines. And it might well have rained anyway, even without U.S. intervention.

Fast-forward four decades and you'll find the same idea, and the same controversial result, is back in play.

A Swiss company called Meteo Systems claims to have seeded more than 50 rainstorms over the Abu Dhabi desert last year.

Some scientists have rubbished the claims.

'The Meteo Systems claims are really nothing more than that - it is a simple example of a chance outcome,' says Dr Deon Terblanche, a weather modification expert at the World Meteorological Organisation.

Others say they might be true. Meteo Systems uses a technology that is new to this field: a network of towers that use electricity to electrically charge the air. The ionised air then seeds rain.

Professor Peter Wilder, of the Technical University of Munich, did not see the rain fall in the desert but he is keeping an open mind about this new idea.

'I am convinced that the ionisation technology has the potential to work,' he says.

Dr Terblanche is not. 'There is no scientific basis to this technology,' he argues.

So far, then, no one knows whether rain-seeding really does do what its supporters claim. Measuring the success of weather modification projects is like peering through a thick fog - and it always has been.

The American efforts in Vietnam were the culmination of a military project started by the mathematical genius behind the atomic bomb. John von Neumann had provided many of the essential calculations for designing the weapons that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

After the war, he turned his attention to making a weapon out of the weather. He gathered fellow scientists at Princeton University and formed a team that would investigate how to wage 'climatological warfare'.

The main idea was to create a drought that would ruin Soviet grain harvests or floods that would devastate cities.

Though significant amounts of money were poured into this secret programme, it never achieved reliable results. And as information began to leak, the public became angry.

Planes flying over South Dakota in a 1972 cloud-seeding experiment were even shot at by farmers. It didn't help the government's-cause when the South Dakota experiment was followed by a devastating flood.

The citizens of Rapid City sued the government after 238 people died when a year's worth of rain fell in the space of a few hours.

Residents in one Chinese city accused another city of stealing their rainfall

Britain has had its own Rapid Citytype disaster. On August 15, 1952, floods struck the town of Lynmouth, Devon, eventually killing 34 people and leaving more than 400 homeless. The RAF had been trying out some cloud-seeding in the region, but as with Rapid City, the Government didn't take responsibility. Lynmouth's rain, the Ministry of Defence said, was coming anyway.

Attempts to modify the weather are going on in around 40 countries now. China is the most gung-ho: the Beijing government employs around 50,000 people in various weather modification centres.

Most of these are charged with making rain fall on arid, unfarmable land. But when forecasters said there was a 50-50 chance of drizzle on the National Day Parade in October 2009, Chinese scientists were told to hold back the rain. They did - they let loose 18 aircraft and seeded clouds in the surrounding area with silver iodide crystals.

It seemed to work because the parade in Tiananmen Square took place under clear blue skies. Whether that is due to the scientists, or whether it would have happened anyway is still hotly contested.

Rain is not the only weather in scientists' sights. There are efforts to disperse fog - sometimes just heating the air seems to work for that. There are those who want to reduce the chance of a hailstorm damaging delicate crops or the structure of buildings. And then there are the truly ambitious projects that aim to untwist a tornado or halt a hurricane.

These projects actively harness the phenomenon that makes weather so unpredictable. Popularly known as the 'butterfly effect' because the flap of a butterfly's wing in Wyoming could disturb the atmosphere and trigger a chain of events that results in a storm in Southport, scientists know this exquisite sensitivity to small changes as 'chaos theory'.

When you are facing something such as Hurricane Katrina, chaos can work in your favour. The idea is that you don't need to create a storm to fight a storm. You just need a tiny little push of just the right sort. Chaos theory can then do the rest.

If you could just work out how to blow the air in the region of a hurricane, or cool it, or heat it, you could push the storm out to sea. The same thing might work with depressions too.

The kind of weather system that brings us a spate of terrible storms often forms way out over the Atlantic Ocean. Computer models suggest that if we were able to warm a specific region of the ocean where the depression is forming, we could keep our weather pleasant for the weekend.

Of course, there are big downsides to all of this. One is that the weather belongs to everyone, and some people are nervous about their neighbours hijacking their precious rain.

In 2004, a row broke out between the Chinese cities of Pingdingshan and Zhoukou in Henan province. The province was suffering a drought, and Pingdingshan meteorologists decided they could use the city's resources to do something about it. They commandeered anti-aircraft guns and rockets to bombard clouds with a fine spray of silver iodide.

Just a few hours later, around 4in of rain fell on the city. A little later in the day, when just an inch of rain fell over Zhoukou 75 miles to the east, Zhoukou officials accused the residents of Pingdingshan of stealing their rain.

Though this seems quaintly comical, it wouldn't if those neighbours were India and Pakistan. It is easy to imagine the row escalating into all-out war.

That is why the World Meteorological Association suggests that weather-modification experiments that take place near national borders be given extra thought before they go ahead.

Of all our attempts to modify the weather, only one has been shown to work to the satisfaction of scientists. It was invented thousands of years ago by the enterprising builders of Sri Lanka's royal palaces.

We adopted it only a few hundred years ago to protect our tallest buildings from the worst ravages of the British weather. A lightning conductor may not bring rain to the desert, but it might be the only weather-controlling tool we ever get.

I was checking out the Mt Wilson observatory web-cam as I usually do every evening and the camera was facing toward Burbank at the time. I saw the strange V shaped vehicle flying over what it looked like to be Burbank. I copied it and kept it on my computer. I enlarged it via the adobe photo-shop soft ware and it did not look anything like an airplane to me.

New Reports Coming In

I will soon be publishing a new article concerning the building shaped and sized UFO's being seen all over the world. Thanks to our readers we have received new reports of even more strangeness being seen in our skies. If you were interested in my recent article ' Strangest of the Strange UFO Sightings ' you will find the new article I am working on equally interesting.

All I can do is report to you what is being seen in our skies. I will tell you the mystery of the UFO subject continues to deepen and increase in strangeness.

Watch for the new reports concerning these huge crafts that are soon to come. The more we all know about what is out there the better off we all are.

Thank you for visiting and to all those who have sent in their reports a huge thank you not only from me but from all who will benefit from your sharing your encounter with the unknown!

Be careful out there people and always pay attention to your surroundings

Chris Holly

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